CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
93.7%
Tenable Nessus is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability in jQuery.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:tenable:nessus";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.170467");
script_version("2024-02-09T14:47:30+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-09 14:47:30 +0000 (Fri, 09 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-05-17 09:49:53 +0000 (Wed, 17 May 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-07-20 23:15:00 +0000 (Tue, 20 Jul 2021)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-11022");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Tenable Nessus < 8.13.0 XSS Vulnerability (TNS-2020-10)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_tenable_nessus_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("tenable/nessus/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Tenable Nessus is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability in jQuery.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Tenable Nessus leverages third-party software to help provide underlying
functionality. One of the third-party components (jQuery) was found to contain vulnerabilities, and
updated versions have been made available by the providers.
Nessus 8.13.0 updates jQuery to version 3.5.1 to address the identified vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Tenable Nessus prior to version 8.13.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 8.13.0 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2020-10");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "8.13.0")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.13.0", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
93.7%